A leading Afghan police chief in the southern province of Kandahar was among 10 officers killed during a gun battle today.

Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated today against an overnight US military raid that one villager said killed several civilians.

The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defence lawyer said.

An Afghan police chief said a suicide car bomber attacked international troops in Helmand province, killing three Afghan civilians.

Three people, including an 11-year-old girl, have been killed in a series of co-ordinated attacks on top Iraqi police bases.

Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban’s most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and Nato troops, officials said today.

Fresh airstrikes in a volatile southern Afghan region killed up to 10 Taliban fighters close to where villagers say about 40 civilians died during a battle earlier this week, and the US-led coalition said local Afghans feared more militant attacks.

At least 21 civilians were killed in airstrikes called in by US Special Forces soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

The US military has filed murder charges against Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was a teenager when he was captured in Afghanistan and sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison in 2002.

Coalition forces captured two suspected al-Qaida members during an early morning raid in eastern Afghanistan today, a military statement said.

Helicopter gunships were today seen launching new attacks in Somalia, close to the scene of a US airstrike aimed at suspected al-Qaida terrorists.

Shots were fired today during a protest at Haiti’s National Palace, where demonstrators were calling for former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to be tried for corruption.

US troops shot dead four Afghan soldiers and wounded four others outside the US Embassy in Kabul yesterday when they mistakenly thought they were about to come under attack, Afghan officials said.

US Special Forces have captured Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Central Command says.

ON a scrap of paper, the Kurdish commander drew a line representing the northern front. Then Majid Harki wrote a single word he repeats often to his frontline fighters: “suber” — patience.

US-BACKED Afghan troops killed eight suspected Taliban and captured 15 others in fighting against extremists holed up in the Torghar mountains of southern Afghanistan, the US military said yesterday.

Pakistani authorities have captured another suspected key al Qaida figure – a man US government sources say oversees communication among the terror network’s operatives.

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S captured right-hand man has revealed that the al-Qaida leader is in good health and living in the mountainous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a Pakistani intelligence official said yesterday.

US military police officers marched the “prisoners” in front of a mock detention centre, shouting at them in English and Arabic, ordering them to their knees to be searched before they get food, water and a place to sleep.

GERMAN military aviation experts arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday to investigate the cause of a helicopter crash which killed all seven German peacekeepers on board.

AFGHAN president Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt yesterday when a security guard fired at his car shortly after 22 people were killed in a car blast in Kabul.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt today when a security guard fired at his car as it was leaving the governor’s mansion in Kandahar, witnesses said.

A group calling itself the Secret Army of Mujahedeen is claiming responsibility for attacks on US troops in Arabic-language leaflets found in eastern Afghanistan.

Hundreds of US and allied Afghan fighters swept into the mountains of eastern Afghanistan today, moving tanks into position for a final push to eradicate al-Qaida fighters making a last stand.

US bombers blasted the cavernous mountains of eastern Afghanistan for a third day today, pressing a new offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters believed to be regrouping in the area.

The first US soldier has been killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan.

The head of Afghanistan’s new interim government has arrived in Rome to discuss the country’s future.